32.1 - Arborescent matorral

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Pre- or post-forest evergreen sclerophyllous or lauriphyllous communities of mediterranean or warm-temperate humid affinities with a more or less dense, broken or low arborescent cover and with a usually thick, high evergreen shrub stratum. They are mostly degradation or reconstitution stages of the broad-leaved evergreen forests (45) or their substitution, intermediate between them and maquis (32.2 to 32.5); some are substitution stages of thermophilous deciduous (41) or conifer (42) forests.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Quercetalia ilicis, Pistacio-Rhamnetalia alaterni i.a.

Bibliography

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Rivas-Martinez, 1974a; Quézel, 1981b; Tomaselli, 1981a.